REMEDIAL EDUCATION TEACHER’S KNOWLEDGE TOWARDS INCLUSIVE EDUCATION

Inclusive education is an effort introduced by the Malaysian government to ensure that people with disabilities (OKU) receive education from a young age. The main goal of the government is to involve more students with special educational needs (MPBK) in the inclusive education and further improve the quality of education as a whole in this country. In effort to create an effective teaching and learning process that meet the needs of MBPK, a teacher must have a specific knowledge about MBPK and have sufficient skills to help them plan an effective learning and further be able to support the needs of MBPK in an inclusive classroom. The purpose of this study was to examine the level of knowledge of Remedial education teachers regarding the implementation of Inclusive education. This study was conducted in Tuaran, Sabah by using a survey as its method and consist of 39 people as a sample. Questionnaire as a research instrument is used in this study and the links are shared by using Whatsapp application. Statistical Package for the Social Science software version 26.0 was used to analyze data collected from this study. The findings of this study founds that the level of knowledge of Remedial education teachers regarding the implementation of Inclusive education is at a moderate level and there is no significant difference between the level of knowledge of teachers and the teaching experience of Remedial education teachers.